Low Uptake for BD40,000 Housing Option in Muharraq

TDT | Manama

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Only 15 applicants in Muharraq’s Third Constituency have so far benefited from the ministry’s BD40,000 land-and-finance option, even though 61 households with files dating to 2004 and earlier asked to move to it, according to a written reply from the Ministry of Housing and Urban Planning to MP Mohammed Al Olaiwi.

The reply also showed that 811 housing applications are still pending in the constituency. Of those, 746 are for housing units, 17 are for housing plots and 48 are for ownership flats.

The oldest pending files total 65 cases, all of them applications for housing units. They include 18 dating from 2002, 17 from 2003 and 30 from 2004.

The year-by-year figures in the reply show that housing-unit requests make up nearly the whole backlog across the constituency. The highest totals among later years were 58 unit applications from 2014, 48 from 2012, 45 from 2011 and 43 from 2013.

Plot requests appeared in far smaller numbers and only in later years. The reply listed two from 2013, three from 2014, one from 2016, one from 2017, one from 2019, one from 2020, three from 2021, one from 2022, two from 2023, one from 2024 and one from 2025.